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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Paid family and medical leave program; Virginia Employment Commission required to establish. [SB-1101]
Paid family and medical leave program. Requires the Virginia Employment Commission to establish and administer a paid family and medical leave program with benefits beginning January 1, 2026. Under the program, benefits are paid to eligible employees for family and medical leave. Funding for the program is provided through premiums assessed to employers and employees beginning in 2025. The amount of a benefit is 80 percent of the employee's average weekly wage, not to exceed 80 percent of the state weekly wage, which amount is required to be adjusted
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Sponsored by: Sen. John Edwards
Left In Commerce And Energy on 02/22/2023
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Writs of eviction; returns to issuing clerk. [HB-1836]
Writs of eviction; returns to issuing clerk; report. Requires the sheriff executing a writ of eviction to return such executed writ to the clerk of court who issued such writ. The bill further directs the Office of the Executive Secretary of the Supreme Court of Virginia to report annually to the Chairmen of the Senate Committee on the Judiciary, the Senate Committee on General Laws and Technology, the House Committee for Courts of Justice, the House Committee on General Laws, and the Virginia Housing Commission on the number of executed writs returned
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Sponsored by: Rep. Clinton Jenkins
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0442) on 03/23/2023
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Writs of eviction; returns to issuing clerk. [SB-1089]
Writs of eviction; returns to issuing clerk; report. Requires the sheriff executing a writ of eviction to return such executed writ to the clerk of court who issued such writ. The bill further directs the Office of the Executive Secretary of the Supreme Court of Virginia to report annually to the Chairmen of the Senate Committee on the Judiciary, the Senate Committee on General Laws and Technology, the House Committee for Courts of Justice, the House Committee on General Laws, and the Virginia Housing Commission on the number of executed writs returned
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Sponsored by: Sen. Adam Ebbin
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0443) on 03/23/2023
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Nurse practitioners and licensed certified midwives; licensed by the Board of Nursing only. [SB-1105]
Board of Medicine; Board of Nursing; joint licensing of nurse practitioners and licensed certified midwives. Moves the professions of nurse practitioners and licensed certified midwives from being licensed jointly by the Board of Medicine and the Board of Nursing to being licensed by the Board of Nursing only.
Sponsored by: Sen. Jennifer Boysko
Passed By Indefinitely In Education And Health (13-y 1-n) on 01/19/2023
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Treasury Board; powers and duties. [SB-1094]
Treasury Board; powers and duties. Provides that the Treasury Board shall have the power and duty to make recommendations to the Governor on bonds, public-private partnerships, or other financing arrangements executed by private foundations for housing or other capital projects with respect to which an educational institution that is not a covered institution is obligated to provide financial or other types of support.
Sponsored by: Sen. Bryce Reeves
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0162) on 03/22/2023
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Over-the-counter and prescription hearing aids; licensure not required by certain corporations, etc. [HB-1833]
Department of Professional and Occupational Regulation; over-the-counter and prescription hearing aids. Clarifies that licensure by the Board for Hearing Aid Specialists and Opticians is not required for a corporation, partnership, trust, association, or other like organization engaged in the business of selling prescription hearing aids, defined in the bill as a hearing aid that is not an over-the-counter hearing aid, provided that it employs only licensed practitioners in the direct sale and fitting of prescription hearing aids.
Sponsored by: Rep. Wendell Walker
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0273) on 03/22/2023
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Pharmaceutical processor or cannabis dispensing facility; increases number of permits issued. [SB-1090]
Board of Pharmacy; permit to operate pharmaceutical processor or cannabis dispensing facility. Increases the limit on the number of permits that the Board of Pharmacy (the Board) may issue or renew in any year from one to two pharmaceutical processors for each health service area established by the Board of Health. The bill also allows the Board to issue or renew permits in any year for up to five cannabis dispensing facilities per pharmaceutical processor for each health service area. Under current law, the Board may issue up to five cannabis dispensing
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Sponsored by: Sen. Adam Ebbin
Left In Health, Welfare And Institutions on 02/22/2023
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Violence prevention services benefit; DMAS to convene group to advise on design & implementation. [SB-1104]
Department of Medical Assistance Services; violence prevention services benefit work group; report. Directs the Department of Medical Assistance Services to convene a work group to advise the Board of Medical Assistance Services on the design and implementation of a violence prevention services benefit. The bill requires the work group to include representatives from the Department and violence intervention programs, medical providers, survivors of community violence, and other members as deemed appropriate by the Department. The Department is required
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Sponsored by: Sen. Mamie Locke
Tabled In Appropriations (13-y 9-n) on 02/15/2023
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
MEI Project Approval Commission; review procedures. [HB-1769]
MEI Project Approval Commission; review procedures. Adds to the incentive packages for economic development, film, and episodic television projects that require MEI Project Approval Commission (the Commission) review and approval any incentive package in which one of the incentives being sought includes a cash payment of more than $3.5 million from any fund prior to any performance metrics being met by the proposed project. The bill clarifies that in calculating whether the value of proposed incentives exceeds $10 million and thus requires review
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Sponsored by: Rep. Daniel Marshall
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0528) on 03/26/2023
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Commonwealth Mass Transit Fund; 3.5 percent of Fund may be allocated to NVTC. [SB-1079]
Commonwealth Mass Transit Fund. Allocates 3.5 percent of the Commonwealth Mass Transit Fund to commuter rail systems jointly operated by the Northern Virginia Transportation Commission (NVTC) and the Potomac and Rappahannock Transportation Commission and excludes such commuter rail systems from receiving allocations pursuant to other distributions of the Fund. The bill requires such commuter rail systems to submit reports to the Commonwealth Transportation Board. The bill limits allocations by the NVTC for distribution to the Washington Metropolitan
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Sponsored by: Sen. John Cosgrove
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0363) on 03/23/2023
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Deputy sheriffs; Compensation Board to study funding. [SJR-239]
Study; Compensation Board; funding for deputy sheriffs; report. Requests the Compensation Board to study the feasibility and fiscal impact of including a locality's total square mileage when calculating funding for deputy sheriffs and to issue a report by the 2024 Regular Session of the General Assembly.
Sponsored by: Sen. Travis Hackworth
Left In Rules on 02/22/2023
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Cannabis control; establishes framework for creation of retail marijuana market. [HB-1750]
Cannabis control; retail market; transitional sales; penalties. Establishes a framework for the creation of a retail marijuana market in the Commonwealth, to be administered by the Virginia Cannabis Control Authority. The bill allows the Authority to begin issuing marijuana licenses on January 1, 2024, but provides that no marijuana sales may occur prior to January 1, 2025. Cannabis control; retail market; transitional sales; penalties. Establishes a framework for the creation of a retail marijuana market in the Commonwealth, to be administered
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Sponsored by: Rep. Michael Webert
Left In General Laws on 02/07/2023
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Common Interest Community Board; enforcement power over continuing violations. [SB-1042]
Common Interest Community Board; enforcement power over continuing violations of common interest community associations. Allows the Office of the Common Interest Community Ombudsman, upon receiving any notice of a final adverse decision issued by a common interest community association, to either (i) refer such final adverse decision to the Common Interest Community Board for further review of whether such decision is in conflict with relevant laws or Board regulations or (ii) make a determination of whether such final adverse decision conflicts
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Sponsored by: Sen. Jeremy McPike
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0021) on 03/16/2023
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Judicial Inquiry and Review Commission; exception to confidentiality. [SB-1031]
Judicial Inquiry and Review Commission; exception to confidentiality; complainant notification of final decision or action. Requires the Judicial Inquiry and Review Commission to provide notice to a complainant of any final decision made or action taken in regards to his filed complaint within 30 days of such decision or action. Judicial Inquiry and Review Commission; exception to confidentiality; complainant notification of final decision or action. Requires the Judicial Inquiry and Review Commission to provide notice to a complainant of any final
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Sponsored by: Sen. Thomas Norment
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0329) on 03/23/2023
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Continuing education; implicit bias and cultural competency in health care. [HB-1734]
Board of Medicine; continuing education; implicit bias and cultural competency in health care. Requires the Board of Medicine to adopt and implement policies that require each practitioner licensed by the Board who has direct contact with persons who are or may become pregnant to complete two hours of continuing education related to implicit bias, defined in the bill, and cultural competency in health care at least once every other license renewal cycle.
Sponsored by: Sen. Chris Head
Left In Health, Welfare And Institutions on 02/07/2023
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Virginia 2023 Regular Session
Safety & Health Codes Bd. of Dept. of Labor & Industry; regulation regarding cranes & derricks, etc. [SB-1039]
Department of Labor and Industry; Safety and Health Codes Board; Virginia Occupational Safety and Health Program; use of cranes and derricks in construction; report. Requires the Safety and Health Codes Board (the Board) of the Department of Labor and Industry (the Department) to adopt regulations to the Virginia Occupational Safety and Health Program (VOSH), regarding cranes and derricks in construction, to allow an active load stabilization mechanism or passive load stabilization mechanism, defined in the bill, to be used if necessary to prevent
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Sponsored by: Sen. Jeremy McPike
Incorporated By Commerce And Labor on 01/16/2023
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Mental health resources; inclusion on Job Safety and Health Protection poster. [HB-1716]
Safety and Health Codes Board; mental health resources. Directs the Safety and Health Codes Board within the Department of Labor and Industry to include mental health resources from the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services on the Virginia Occupational Safety and Health Program's Job Safety and Health Protection poster that employers are required to keep posted in the workplace.
Sponsored by: Rep. Kathleen Murphy
Left In Commerce And Energy on 02/07/2023
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Virginia STEM Education Advisory Board; purpose and duties, historically underrepresented students. [HB-1657]
Virginia STEM Education Advisory Board; purpose and duties; historically underrepresented students. Expands the purpose of the Virginia Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Education Advisory Board to include promoting the participation of historically underrepresented students, as defined in the bill, in primary and secondary schools in STEM education. The bill expands the duties of the Board to effectuate this additional purpose. Finally, the bill increases from 16 to 24 the nonlegislative citizen membership of the Board and
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Sponsored by: Rep. Kathleen Murphy
Failed To Report (defeated) In Education (10-y 11-n) on 01/23/2023
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Virginia Parent Data Portal; Board of Education to create and maintain, report. [HB-1629]
Board of Education; creation and maintenance of Virginia Parent Data Portal; report. Requires the Board of Education, on or before July 1, 2025, to create and maintain the Virginia Parent Data Portal that, among other things, (i) displays individualized student assessment data on all state-supported assessments, as that term is defined in the bill, (a) in a format that shows both current and cumulative data over time and (b) within 45 days of a state-supported assessment window closing for each state-supported assessment; (ii) provides a description
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Sponsored by: Rep. Kathy Byron
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0652) on 03/26/2023
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Common Interest Community Board; enforcement power over continuing violations. [HB-1627]
Common Interest Community Board; enforcement power over continuing violations of common interest community associations. Allows the Office of the Common Interest Community Ombudsman, upon receiving any notice of a final adverse decision issued by a common interest community association, to either (i) refer such final adverse decision to the Common Interest Community Board for further review of whether such decision is in conflict with relevant laws or Board regulations or (ii) make a determination of whether such final adverse decision conflicts
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Sponsored by: Rep. Carrie Coyner
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0020) on 03/16/2023